The AM conspiracy, maturity

[blpurdom at yahoo.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote: > 
> Here's an OT musing: what do you people see as the Age Of Reason?  
What is this thing called maturity, and when does it strike?  At what 
age does the youth excuse cease to apply?   At what age do people 
start thinking like "adults", and what does this mean?  Are there a 
series of ages by which people tend to be at certain life stages??
 
Forget thinking like adults, I'm simply waiting for my kids to "wake 
up" and attain self-awareness.  The film that M. Night Shyamalan made 
before The Sixth Sense was called Wide Awake.  The child at the 
center of this film is basically sleep-walking through life, even to 
the extent that his parents are dressing him and brushing his teeth 
in his sleep in the mornings.  When his grandfather dies, he begins a 
spiritual journey and eventual has an epiphany that "wakes" him up. I 
can't wait for my kids to hit this point!  And I've met some adults 
who never have...they still drift through life, seeing nothing beyond 
their own noses.

--Barb